Elijah Raine

The origins and background behind Elijah Raine are skewed and undefined. He first appears as a lost, blind, amnesia-wracked child, but is later revealed to be an incredibly powerful Madjikand, brought back from the dead. Along with ten other Madjikand, Elijah is under the control of the mana imbued within him and as a result suffers from severely taxing struggles with the controlling entity within his mind. Biologically, Elijah represents the child that would have been, had the baby son of Eulin-Rae and Fehrin the Blind not passed away. Spiritually, however, it is uncertain if Elijah is this boy, leaving him with an unspoken burden of guilt after learning of his parents and the sacrifices that they ultimately make to keep him alive.

After his father, also a Madjikand, returns from the dead a second time and completely severs the control over him, Elijah disappears for an undisclosed amount of time until he returns (in garb much likened to his father's) and solves the conflict of the story.

In the end, Elijah submits that he is a shade of reality, and chooses to sacrifice his existence for Eulin and Fehrin, restoring them to life, and eradicating the Madjikand from Fehrin's body. As he fades away and says goodbye, he chooses not to tell them he loves them, and wonders if as a shade if he could ever know what it truly meant. He inwardly accounts of a sesnational return to a familiar warmth and comfort and feeling of protection, presumably that he'd had as Eulin and Fehrin's baby child.

From the wisps of his departure, a baby child lay in a basinet, sleeping soundly. Eulin and Fehrin, both in tears rush to their child, sweep him up and allow themselves to be overcome by their emotion for one another. In the end, they name the baby something other than Elijah. Then, the baby opens his eyes, and it is vaguely implied that Elijah has at the very least become part of the new child with the statement of the deep, emerald-green eyes (the wetnurse that delivered him recounted in passing that the last baby she'd delivered had blue eyes, but Fehrin and Eulin never saw them).